Photography and the Organic: An Anthotype Workshop with Diana Guerra

Participants will explore the anthotype process by creating photographic impressions using plant-based emulsions derived from purple corn, blueberries, spinach, and beets. Working with archival photographs, the workshop invites a dialogue between vernacular imagery and organic, light-sensitive materials. Through coating, exposing, and observing the gradual fading of these pigments, participants will consider themes of memory, time, and material transformation. The process emphasizes experimentation and the poetic instability of image making rooted in natural sources.

About the Artist

Diana Guerra is a Peruvian born lens-based artist and educator currently based in New York. Her work revolves around themes of memory, belonging, and identity (re)construction through a feminist and decolonial perspective. She received an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from the City College of New York and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Guerra’s early training in photography was at Parsons School of Design as part of the MFA Photography program. Selected exhibitions include the Bronx Museum, Museum of the City of New York, The Latinx Project, Mana Contemporary, Penumbra Foundation, Der Greif, and Photoville. Guerra is a 2026 Kahn | Mason SIP Fellow and a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography. She received the AIM Bronx Museum Fellowship and the SPCUNY Faculty Fellowship in 2024, and the En Foco Photography Fellowship in 2022. She has been an artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Wassaic Project, NY; Andamio, Lima, Peru; and Hangar, Center of Artistic Research, Lisbon, Portugal. Diana is currently an Adjunct Professor at The City College of New York (CUNY).